Jean Lowe-Hey Sexy

     Enamel on panel 

Jean Lowe's work, Hey Sexy is variation of paintings of photographs that she took from places such as Wal-Mart, Big Lots, & biggest one of all 99¢ Stores.The paintings are isles of these stores in beautiful buildings saying that everything that we buy like food, clothing, soap, paint, ect. And the labels, advertisements, & seal that all of that is are are because we just continue to consume & it isn't enough. I think these paintings are really bold & deep because most people don't realize it, that we take so much for granted & don't even care. The way Jean Lowe's paintings relate to drawing is when I saw these I noticed all the value she used, & her color schemes. When you see advertisements they tend to have colors to make them more appealing so you'll buy them.

  Enamel on panel 36"x36" 

                           

                                            

God Nose-John Baldessar

God Nose, 2007 Casted aluminum, hand-painted. 36"x37"x6" Edition of 25

I tried to find more information about this piece but I couldn't. But I wanted to talk about it because when I saw  it at the Museum of Contemporary Art I thought it was really clever. You see only God's nose surrounded by clouds but the metaphor is he knows everything. I love this piece, I really think its great. And the way it relates to drawing is for a painting & a 3D one you see value with the shadows through out the clouds & even the nose it's self. That, & you see the shine on the nose then to the left of it you see the shadow.

Jo Bradney-Carbon Footprints

  22"x30" Charcoal & pastel drawing
What Jo Bradney is showing with her Carbon Footprints charcoal drawings is what we are what we eat, or in other words what we consume is who we are. I like how she uses her drawings to show that, its refreshing in a way because her drawings are dark with the deep colors she uses to show the message. I choose her because I like her drawings & the colors she uses. The way Jo Bradney's drawings relate to drawing is the value she shows in her drawings with the different values of the grays, blacks, purple, ect.
 




"As I stroke the soft charcoal across the paper, enveloping the artifact, the image forms where the charcoal isn’t. A footprint in the dust. Fragments of faded pastel, like a hand-colored photograph, speak of times past."

                                  

                                                                                                    12"x10"Charcoal & pastel drawing

     18"x12" Charcoal & pastel drawing

                                                                                         

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CeCi Saucedo

 

CeCi Saucedo is an 18 year old, first year student at Crafton Hills College. She is in my opinion a wonderful artist, especially when it comes to drawing. Her drawings are really cartoony & show a lot of character which is why I love them. She wants to work with Disney in the future & I think she is well on her way.  This artist relates to drawing is her drawings show value, shading, & the colors in some of her drawings remind me of what we've learned about colors.The colors she uses reminds me of the color scales. She also shows a lot of value in her drawings & I think in some of her drawings shows so much with so little with some of the value or even a bit of detail shows a lot.

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Blu-Muto, A wall painted motion

A short film by Blu: an ambigous animation painted on public walls. Mad in Buenos Aires & in Baden (fantoche). I choose this because every time I see Blu's videos I have to keep reminding my self that its motion picture & every motion is done by hand. I also think about how much time was put into each motion as well. I am really fascinated with Blu's work. It relates to drawing because every motion is a drawing. But with that, you see motions of each thing as it moves across the wall or ground. And you also see blending as well.

Frida Kahlo-The Two Fridas

Painted in 1939, Oil on Canvas, 67x67 inches. It was believed to be an expression of Frida's feelings about her divorce with Diego Rivera. This was the first large-scale self portrait she has ever done. Frida wore her heart on her sleeve & in this case it was literally almost. On the right, the Frida is holding a small portrait of Diego. It relates to Drawing because first off it's a self portrait which we're about to do. And it's a very expressive painting with how Frida felt. This painting illustrating a literal split between her two selves is from this period of turmoil & self-doubt. The composition is striking. On the right is the Mexican Frida in traditional tehuana dress. On the left is European Frida in a colonial white dress, possibly intended to be wedding garb. The two women are seated on a green bench, holding hands. The anatomy of their hearts is superimposed on them both; the one belonging to the European self is seen through a hole in her dress at the breast. A blood line originates at a cameo of Diego as a child held by the Frida on the right. It twines between them both & is ultimately terminated by a medical implement held by the Frida on the left. Blood stains intermingle with the red flowers at the hem of the dress. I choose this because I love how she expresses herself is so bold & something that I've never seen or would think of doing with a self portrait.

Frida Kahlo said "Since my subjects have always been my sensations, my states of mind and the profound reactions that life has been producing in me, I have frequently objectified all this in figures of myself, which were the most sincere and real thing that I could do in order to express what I felt inside and outside of myself."

Starry Night-Vincent Van Gogh

Starry Night by Vincent Van Gogh, (Oil on Canvas, 1889) was painted when he was in the Asylum at Saint-Remy in 1889. There are different aspects when it comes to this painting talking about how the town, sky, clouds, ect. But Vincent in his younger years wanted to dedicate his life to evangelization of those in poverty. This painting is the post of impressionist landscape painting.I choose this because for one it's my most favorite painting by Van Gogh. Another reason why is I love it for the colors & the motions of the sky. The swirls that I think really dignified  the painting because it's pretty intense.